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Reimagining life with chronic illness and/or disability. Invisible, just like my disability.
Netflix is funding a yearlong fellowship for writers and filmmakers with disabilities to help launch their work in the entertainment industry. Each awardee will receive $55,000 to make their short with an experienced crew and support themselves as part of the Visionary Fellowship. In addition, the program will provide access to health insurance, marketing support and money for travel and access needs. This is the largest investment of any studio to try to include perspectives from people with disabilities. Netflix will fund the effort through its Fund for Creative Equity, the program will be run by the Inevitable Foundation, a nonprofit that invests in writers and filmmakers with disabilities. Not a huge amount of $ or time, but a great start, I hope it will lead to many more opportunities for artists in these communities. Diversity and inclusivity benefits everyone! https://lnkd.in/eM8ej4yv
Yay! I applied in hopes of making an educational film about human trafficking and systemic entrapment of disabled persons.
Wowww Netflix Can't wait to turn 18 to apply!! This is huge... It is an incredible first step -- I have 5 books on Amazon and my dream is to have them become animated shorts -- I know it will happen... Keep the doors open, help me break barriers -- Diversability® Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios PBS Kansas Kids
OMG i am a filmmaker and have a disability with Down Syndrome. I have a lot of exprerinced in video production and i can camera operate/ editing and everything i have studied this since high school and doing technical director at San Diego unified school board meetings
This sounds really interesting. I’ve been working on an outline for a TV pilot. and now I’m just getting to the point of trying to write it. The idea is amazing in my head. I’m just kind of overthinking everything.
Important! I hope they are flooded with applicants and grow the program.
It says have to live in USA or Canada
It was such an amazing opportunity for one of my students but it is only for people who lives in the U.S. or Canada 😥
I hope we start to see more of this in media, films, and video games. Representation really matters!
CX + Adaptive Cycling Spec, The Cargo Bike Shop | Founder, Project 'Make America Better' | Neurodiversity, Disability + LGBTQ Inclusion/Acceptance Advocate | Human-Centered Design + Strategy
2moOMG, I really want to do this but don’t have any experience or connections to filmmakers or scriptwriters (ha, I studied psychology, human behavior, and design in all my schooling). I have an incredible story of disabilities, survival, and my tiny body being used for medical research in the 1980s through 2000s that I want to share with the world! Who can help me and where do I start? I assure you, the content of my life stories + healing processes would NOT disappoint!